Churn-dasher



UNITED sTATEFs PATENT EEE.

MOSES D. WELLS, OF MORGANTO'WN, VIRGINIA.

CHURN-DASHER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,756, dated March 19, 1861.

T o all whom it 'may concern.:

Be it known that I, MOSES D. VVELLs, of Morgantown, in the county ofMonongalia and State of Virginia., have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Churns; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawing, forming part of this specification, in the severalfigures of which similar characters of reference denote the same part.

Figure l is a verticalsection of the churn. Fig. 2 is a top view ofdasher.

This improvement lies in the employment in a box receptacle4 of anoblique rotatory box dasher for the purpose of giving great agitation tothe cream and also for collecting the butter in the best possible mannerafter it has been made, the details of oonstruction and operation beingas follows:

In the drawing B is the bodyof the churn to be made at bottom curving soas to conform to the movement of the dasher.

D is the dashermade up 'of two sides a and two curved face pieces Z)having projecting lips b at diagonaal corners forming a box dasher withtwo straight sides, two curved sides, and open on two sides. The

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action of this dasher in rotating is to create great agitation by theaction of the face pieces Z) b. The dasher being hollow, a few slowturns of the same causes the butter to collect within the box so as tobe removed in a lump. In this respect this construction of dasher has anadvantage over other constructions of like nature. The box is suppliedwith air from above by opening 0.

The object of the diagonal lips b', b', is, to gather the butteragainst, and prevent it from being thrown out of the box in turning itaround. In churning, the box dasher may be turned rapidly. To gather thebutter it is turned in the same direction, but at a greatly reducedspeed.

I claim- The oblique box dasher D constructed and operatingsubstantially as set forth, that is to say, with two Hat sides, twocurved sides, and two open sides, and turned in the same direction forchurning, and for gathering the butter, but at various velocities asmentioned. v I

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name before twosubscribing wit-

